TMP-era Bridges
- Thread starter Wingsley
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I wonder if "The Enterprise Incident" VIP guest quarters on Deck 2 (which took the turbolift an awfully long time to get to from the bridge) could have once been Captain Pike's quarters (a kind of close-by Ready Room like Archer's but with a bed) in "The Menagerie".
It traveled at the speed of plot. 
Ditto. I could see Kirk being so modest as to take a regular Line Officer Cabin rather than the assigned Captain's Quarters. Or just as well young Pike being arrogant enough to sleep in the Admiral's Quarters during long voyages, confident that nobody would find out...
As for the length of that turbolift ride, it's not "long", but actually "indefinite": we lose sight of movement right after the start. Even the soundscape sort of fades.
We might well assume that Spock didn't open the doors at the destination, but instead preferred to carry the discussion to its conclusion. We don't see his hands, either, so he could be doing all sorts of things with them (although not those sorts, you dirty-minded Earthling!).
Timo Saloniemi
Or maybe the assumed doubling of crew size between Cage and the series meant captains were assigned smaller (Senior Officers)' quarters, with the old captain's room becoming VIP space (replacing previous VIP quarters somewhere else that had been converted into more crew accommodation).
Possibly this class of ship didn't even warrant a VIP cabin previously, being used for dull milk runs such as the "The Cage" mission under the command of a guy wearing Lieutenant braid... In light of the 2009 movie, the Constitutions may have been among the smallest frontline ship classes of their time, filling the "cruiser" role against the more prestigious "battleship" role of ships like the Kelvin.
At being assigned to the Mission Beyond the Galaxy and other such high-profile stuff, the humble cruiser would start getting VIP ferry missions, which would necessitate kicking the CO out of his luxury cabin because with all the exploration gear and whatnot, there was no way to actually build dedicated VIP spaces.
Timo Saloniemi
At being assigned to the Mission Beyond the Galaxy and other such high-profile stuff, the humble cruiser would start getting VIP ferry missions, which would necessitate kicking the CO out of his luxury cabin because with all the exploration gear and whatnot, there was no way to actually build dedicated VIP spaces.
Timo Saloniemi
